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Technology is annoying
« on: April 26, 2017, 05:46:43 pm »
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Learning Excel and learning about the errors in Excel.

Just learnt about floating point error. I hate it so bad.

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Re: Technology is annoying
« Reply #1 on: April 26, 2017, 05:56:25 pm »
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Learning Excel and learning about the errors in Excel.

Just learnt about floating point error. I hate it so bad.

Is this for Computing for Engineers or something similar? ;D

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Re: Technology is annoying
« Reply #2 on: April 26, 2017, 05:57:38 pm »
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Is this for Computing for Engineers or something similar? ;D
Thread can be for either :P

I'm probably mainly using it for computing though... I need a thread to vent about coding.

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Re: Technology is annoying
« Reply #3 on: April 26, 2017, 06:41:22 pm »
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Learning Excel and learning about the errors in Excel.

Just learnt about floating point error. I hate it so bad.

I was at Officeworks the other day and was trying to work out for a solid sixty seconds why I couldn't swipe on one of the display phones.

It's because the phone wasn't on - the display was just a stationary sticker.

I'm good at technology.

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Re: Technology is annoying
« Reply #4 on: April 26, 2017, 07:00:51 pm »
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Thread can be for either :P

I'm probably mainly using it for computing though... I need a thread to vent about coding.

Cool cool! Yeah I meant like was the rant above for uni, sounds like it was ;)

So I tutor, and I'll sometimes use a whiteboard I carry around, other times I'll use an iPad. The iPad is better because I can send the student the notes from the lesson and erase stuff and resize stuff and etc. I've now used the iPad enough that I'll catch myself trying to pinch to zoom on my whiteboard.

So my peeve is this: Why can't whiteboards pinch to zoom?

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Re: Technology is annoying
« Reply #5 on: April 27, 2017, 04:27:57 am »
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Cool cool! Yeah I meant like was the rant above for uni, sounds like it was ;)

So I tutor, and I'll sometimes use a whiteboard I carry around, other times I'll use an iPad. The iPad is better because I can send the student the notes from the lesson and erase stuff and resize stuff and etc. I've now used the iPad enough that I'll catch myself trying to pinch to zoom on my whiteboard.

So my peeve is this: Why can't whiteboards pinch to zoom?

If I was your tutee, I'd be super impressed by your resources! What a stellar idea - using the iPad to send the notes to the student!
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Re: Technology is annoying
« Reply #6 on: April 27, 2017, 03:09:56 pm »
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Cool cool! Yeah I meant like was the rant above for uni, sounds like it was ;)

So I tutor, and I'll sometimes use a whiteboard I carry around, other times I'll use an iPad. The iPad is better because I can send the student the notes from the lesson and erase stuff and resize stuff and etc. I've now used the iPad enough that I'll catch myself trying to pinch to zoom on my whiteboard.

So my peeve is this: Why can't whiteboards pinch to zoom?
Jamon, if we could do this, that would save me all of my struggles when I fill a whole classroom's whiteboards with linear algebra

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Re: Technology is annoying
« Reply #7 on: May 03, 2017, 08:14:50 pm »
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Inputting the wrong formula... damn that circular referencing...

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Re: Technology is annoying
« Reply #8 on: May 03, 2017, 08:24:37 pm »
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Is this an actuarial subject? :(
Yep. In our CT1 course, we're taught Excel now

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Re: Technology is annoying
« Reply #9 on: May 04, 2017, 07:35:19 am »
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I accidentally put Red Cross on hold the other day. 8)

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Re: Technology is annoying
« Reply #10 on: May 04, 2017, 07:55:49 am »
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I accidentally put Red Cross on hold the other day. 8)
Woah  :o

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Re: Technology is annoying
« Reply #11 on: May 04, 2017, 08:07:23 am »
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Woah  :o

They called me earlier in the day, which I missed. So I tried to call them back, and all of a sudden they were on hold?!

I'm not good at things. :(

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Re: Technology is annoying
« Reply #12 on: May 07, 2017, 06:25:31 pm »
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I was attending a lecture where I'm essentially doing coding for biologists on a statistics program (which by the way, is not equal to coding for computers) and the program started to lag a little, my phone began to ring, so I ran out this lecture with the lecturer looking at me like I was crazy. (The phone number was associated with an internship I applied for, so it was important.) I run out, just in time to see the phone call go from ringing to missed call. Not cool. I ring back and get the answering machine. I leave a message and return to my lecture... but my phone rings again. Being smart about it, as I open the door again to exit said lecture theatre, I finally took the call successfully.
A couple of weeks later, my laptop with the same program I was using during that lecture crashes. I'm obviously not having the best time with technology.   
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Re: Technology is annoying
« Reply #13 on: May 22, 2017, 11:25:16 am »
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Playing an intense game of everwing when the game suddenly crashed on you

(A bit silly but still a rant)

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Re: Technology is annoying
« Reply #14 on: May 22, 2017, 12:57:25 pm »
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Typing up a really long answer to a question while on 11% battery and your phone dies...

Then someone beats you to the answer.  :-\